Life of Helen Alone

by Karen Lawrence

Helen trades her safe, single life for the perilous role of stepmother/lover, when she falls in love with Daniel and goes to live with him and his three children on his farm

Genres: Fiction

272 pages, Hardcover

First published July 12, 1986

Reviews

[PEN Center USA · Rating 5 out of 5]

1987 PEN Center USA Award Winner for First Novel

[Barbara · Rating 3 out of 5]

A quiet, slow book about a woman who falls in love with Dan, a farmer who is raising his three children alone. His wife left because she couldn't handle the harshness of farm-life. Helen comes to love the farm and the kids. Her younger brother shows up. He's a drifter and things don't go well. Dan has affairs with other women; his kids like Helen but don't take her seriously because they suspect she's temporary. It could have used better editing but it was good.

[Boargenes · Rating 4 out of 5]

Excellent, readable i love it

[Sonja · Rating 3 out of 5]

Much better after getting past the beginning.

[Linda · Rating 3 out of 5]

A woman lives with a divorced man and his three children who resent her.